[ Thanks to Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols for this link. ]
“On December 7th, Google is expected to announce the
release of a laptop with the first version of the Chrome operating
system. Concurrently, Google is going great guns with Android. Does
Google really need two operating systems? So what’s going on here?“Here’s what Google is up to. Yes, both Android and Chrome OS
are Linux-based operating systems. Neither, at the application
level, uses the common Linux desktop application programming
interfaces (API) that are used by the GNOME or KDE desktops and
their applications.“They’re also similar in that both use a common set of
techniques to make them more secure. The most important of these is
process sand-boxing. What this means is that any Chrome or Android
application has just enough access to the system to do its
job.”